very dark.
For all of my post-staycation talk about making better use of daylight hours, I’ve been taking a hell of a lot of photos when I really shouldn’t: long after the sun goes down and/or in what is basically candlelight. It took me a minute, after a bit of squinting and memory recall, to figure out what this is a photo of: the fruit stand at the corner of Canal and Essex streets, around 10:30pm earlier this week. On the left side, with the lights jutting away diagonally, is Division Street. The local lies just steps into the darkness.
I didn’t realize until after I’d taken the photo that the aperture setting was set at f/8, which would plunge an already underexposed nighttime photograph into much murkier territory. New York is never quite this ominous looking, I don’t think.
More daytime photos soon, I promise.
hong-an tran 